Gov. Robert Bentley has suggested that the state will have
to raise money to
build more prisons in order to alleviate overcrowding. But Sen. Cam Ward,
R-Alabaster, has said that building a way out of the prison problem isn't
economically feasible.

Other suggestions include releasing some prisoners, as the
federal government ordered to ease overcrowding at California prisons, or
enacting sentencing reform so that fewer Alabamians go to prison in the first
place.

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